I just got done commenting, wrt Nassim Taleb's assertion that btc is filled with imbeciles, that he's basically right. I've been following this space for a decade, and my perception is that the most amplified voices have gone from smart people who deeply understood important aspects of the world advocating mind-blowing ideas, to mostly idiots parroting the popular orthodoxy. If btc didn't exist they'd be manifesting the same "passion" for something else, with comparable understanding and nuance. This has become so off-putting that I've basically disengaged to preserve my sanity -- my take is that if btc succeeds, it will be in spite of most of its advocates, not because of them.
But now I'm curious if anyone on SN has pointers to something they consider new and worthwhile -- new thinking, from new perspectives, that isn't just another circle jerk by a bagholding acolyte. To give an example, I was briefly excited by Space Boy's thesis, but then, when I actually read it, it became clear how hollow and stupid it was, as people (e.g., Jameson Lopp, Erik Voskuil) have begun to point out. But man, for a second, it felt great.
So: anything legit to be excited about that's not the same old shit?